Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — BILL ARP AND SLAVERY. [ARTICLE]

BILL ARP AND SLAVERY.

Cincinnati Enquirer: A quaint and pleasant conversationist of the old school is Major Smith (Bill Arp), pt Atlanta, Ga. The major was a slave-holder in his ; ounigor days, having received three families of negroes, some twelve persons in all, as the wedding portion of his wife. In talking al out th© slave question, he said: “This talk that the south lost $100,000,000 by the emancipation proclamation is all nonsense. I am prepared to show that the south did not lose a dollar. In all my experience as a slave owner, if I ever made a dollar by their labor r Ido not know it. We got their labor in exchange lor their food and clothing, the rearing of their young and the caring for the old. We get their labor for the same price now, without having the burden of responsibility for the young and the aged snd sick. We used to pay their doctor bills; now they pay their own. This difference is already seen fiom the fact that many men are accumulating wealth through the employment of negroes, who never got ahead a dollar in the slave days, although they were the owners of many slaves.”

Many people shook their heads when Hon. L. Q. C Lamar was appointed secretary of tue interior.. They said he was a dreamer and con’d not perform the practical .u----ties of a cabinet position. But it turns out that Mr. Lamar is the most useful member of the cabinet. All the great reforms of the administration have been made in his department. He has restored to the people 100,000,000 acres of the pub lic lands stolen by railroad corporations under republican administrations.—Fort Worth Mail.

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